Whiteness at the Table: Antiracism, Racism, and Identity in Education - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498578098 ISBN 13 : 9781498578097

Editeur : Lexington, 2020

Synopsis

Antiracist work in education has proceeded as if the only social relation at issue is the one between white people and people of color. But what if our antiracist efforts are being undermined by unexamined difficulties and struggles among white people?

Whiteness at the Table examines whiteness in the lived experiences of young children, family members, students, teachers, and school administrators. It focuses on racism and antiracism within the context of relationships. Its authors argue that we cannot read or understand whiteness as a phenomenon without attending to the everyday complexities and conflicts of white people's lives.

This edited volume is entitled Whiteness at the Table, then, for at least three reasons. First, the title evokes the origins of this book in the ongoing storytelling and theorizing of the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective-a small collective of antiracist educators, scholars, and activists who have been gathering at its founders' dining room table for almost a decade.

Second, the book's authors are theorizing whiteness not just in terms of structural aspects of white power, but in terms of how whiteness is reproduced and challenged in the day-to-day interactions and relationships of white people. In this sense, whiteness is always already at the table, and this book seeks to illuminate how and why this is so.

Finally, one of the primary aims of Whiteness at the Table is to persuade white people of their moral and political responsibility to bring whiteness-as an explicit topic, as perhaps the most important problem to be solved at this historical moment-to the table. This responsibility to theorize and combat whiteness cannot and should not fall only to people of color.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Shannon K. McManimon is assistant professor of educational studies atState University of New York, New Paltz

Zachary A. Casey is assistant professor of educational studies at Rhodes College

Christina Berchini is assistant professor of educational studies University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Audrey Lensmire is assistant professor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, where she teaches courses on literacy education. She is a co-founder of the Midwest Critical Whiteness Collective.

Erin T. Miller (she/her/hers) is an associate professor at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). She co-developed and currently directs the Antiracist Graduate Certificate Program at UNCC. Her scholarship examines the intersection of racial identity, childhood socialization, and teacher education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498578098
• ISBN 13: 9781498578097
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Éditeur: McManimon Shannon, Casey Zachary, Berchini Christina
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible